Comments on: Monopoly Money

By: Caio

Caio — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:07:26 +0000

@reboot: Good idea, but fixing prices (as opposed to pegging currency to one rare resource) has always been a disaster in practise. I’ll leave why to the theorists but there are thousands of examples collapsing under this policy going right back to ancient rome.

By: tiki god

tiki god — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:14:10 +0000

@deuce
talking about your submission!

By: AbaddonTheDespoiler

AbaddonTheDespoiler — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:04:30 +0000

I pay for my hookers and crackwhores in monopoly money

By: deuce

deuce — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:08:52 +0000

Tiki: the image was 575×502, not “postage stamp” sized, and I included at least 2-3 sentences explaining the significance of the image. I don’t know whose submission you’re talking about.

By: reboot

reboot — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:23:36 +0000

ack’s comment give me an idea:
Currently the dollar’s value is based solely on “the good faith and credit the United States government”, and consequently freefalling in value. Gold standard isn’t much better, since the availability of gold doesn’t scale to modern economies.
But SEX-BASED currency has a lot of potential. Just fix the value of the dollar to a various sex acts. Instead of maintaining a gold reserve Fort Knox and NY Federal Reserve would be brothels. It would be the most stable currency EVAR.

By: tripolar

tripolar — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:07:04 +0000

@tiki:

‘Tis good to be God, yes?

By: tiki god

tiki god — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:01:42 +0000

@deuce

context is everything….had there been some explanation on why a 25pixel wide postage stamp of a poorly photoshopped dollarbill was being submitted it might have had a chance in hell to be posted. A small almost non perceivable one, but a chance none the less

By: deuce

deuce — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:27:57 +0000

I submitted the George W. Bush $200 bill that was passed off to a WalMart cashier a few years ago, but Tiki didn’t think it was good enough.

Now, Monopoly money, that’s better.

By: actrivi

actrivi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:38:41 +0000

Who knew that monopoly could be so riddled with counterfeiters…

By: ack

ack — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:34:55 +0000

A few years ago in KÃƒÂ¶ln some guy passed off a whorehouse coupon to a store cashier.

It was the wrong color, a non-existent denomination (I believe 75Ã¢â€šÂ¬) and had pictures of strippers and girl giving a blow-job on it.

It was hard to feel sorry for the cashier who was scammed.